README for replication files;
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INITIAL DEPOSIT DATE: 05/11/23
THIS VERSION: 05/11/23
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ARTICLE: “Where Are the Missing Dead? How Metrics Management Mitigates Official Data Misreporting in China”
AUTHORS: Guoer Liu
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Replication code and data needed to reproduce results presented in-text and in the Supplemental Information provided for the study. 

NOTE: - Functions for exporting figures have been excluded. Results are printed in R. 
      - Functions exporting tables have been excluded. Results are printed in R. Tables will reproduce all results, but note that manual, presentational edits were made to all tables. 

Please report any errors to Guoer Liu; current contact info: guoerliu@umich.edu
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FILE LIST:

main.dta -- main data file needed to reproduce results (collapsed by province-year)
event_data.dta -- event data file needed to produce results (raw)
prov_month.dta -- 16 month event data file needed to produce results

f1_fA2_apx.R -- replication code that produces Figure 1, A2, and Appendix Table A3 - A5, A9 - A11
f2.R -- replication code that produces Figure 2
f3_apx.R -- replication code that produces Figure 3 and Appendix Table A6
f4.R -- replication code that produces Figure 4
f5.R -- replication code that produces Figure 5
f6_fA3_fA7.R -- replication code that produces Figure 6, Appendix Figure A3, A7
f7_fA4_apx.R -- replication code that produces Figure 7, and Appendix Table A7 & A8
fA5.R -- replication code that produces Appendix Figure A5
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PACKAGE VERSIONS:

haven - 2.3.0
foreign - 0.8-75
estimatr - 0.22.0
scales - 1.1.1
modelsummary - 1.0.2
extrafont - 0.17
DataCombine - 0.2.21 
data.table - 1.12.8 
fixest - 0.9.0
panelview - 1.1.9




